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title: We will, therefore, not listen to what was spoken, and on no conditi… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: We will, therefore, not listen to what was spoken, and on no condition run in the possibility of telling tales out of school; but we will rather proceed, like good quiet citizens, to East Street, and observe what happened meanwhile to the body of the watchman. Who acts: We, possibility. A sentence o
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2, sentence 120

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We will, therefore, not listen to what was spoken, and on no condition run in the possibility of telling tales out of school; but we will rather proceed, like good quiet citizens, to East Street, and observe what happened meanwhile to the body of the watchman.

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**Who acts:** We, possibility · **What happens:** not listen, speak, run, tell, proceed, observe · **To what, where:** condition, possibility, tales, school · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, possibility), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg1597:6:120
# text = We will, therefore, not listen to what was spoken, and on no condition run in the possibility of telling tales out of school; but we will rather proceed, like good quiet citizens, to East Street, and observe what happened meanwhile to the body of the watchman.
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	listen	listen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	obl	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	spoken	speak	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	16	det	_	_
16	condition	condition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
17	run	run	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	possibility	possibility	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
22	telling	tell	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	acl	_	_
23	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
24	out	out	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	32	punct	_	_
28	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
29	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
30	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
31	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	proceed	proceed	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
34	like	like	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
36	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	citizens	citizen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
39	to	to	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	East	East	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	_
41	Street	Street	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
44	observe	observe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	conj	_	_
45	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	46	nsubj	_	_
46	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	44	ccomp	_	_
47	meanwhile	meanwhile	ADV	RB	_	50	advmod	_	_
48	to	to	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	_
51	of	of	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	watchman	watchman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **listen** | future | We |  |  | no condition |  | therefore *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to what=Theme |
| 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | past · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V» |
| 3 | **run** | participle |  | no condition *not said here* |  | the possibility |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in possibility=Trajectory |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | the possibility *not said here* | tales |  | school |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tale=Recipient |
| 5 | **proceed** | future | we |  |  |  |  | like good quiet citizens to East Street | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **observe** | infinitive | we *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 7 | **happen** | past |  |  |  |  |  | to the body of the watchman | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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